Psalms 80:13

11 It sent out its branches to the Sea, and its shoots toward the River.

12 Why have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pick its fruit?

The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.

14 Return, O God of Hosts, we pray! Look down from heaven and see! Attend to this vine—

15 the root Your right hand has planted, the son You have raised up for Yourself.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
The boar from the forest ravages it, and the creatures of the field feed upon it.
KJV
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
WEB
The boar out of the wood ravages it. The wild animals of the field feed on it.
ASV
The boar out of the wood doth ravage it, And the wild beasts of the field feed on it.
DARBY
The boar out of the forest doth waste it, and the beast of the field doth feed off it.
BLB
The boar from the forest tears at her, and the wild beast of the field feeds on her.
ÅB
Svinet fra skogen gnager på det, og hva som rører seg på marken, spiser av det.
OTB
Et villsvin fra skogen herjer den,
Og alt som beveger seg på marken spiser av den.
B1930
Svinet fra skogen gnager på det, og hvad som rører sig på marken, eter av det.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 4:7

    A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations has set out. He has left his lair to lay waste your land. Your cities will be reduced to ruins and lie uninhabited.

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  • Jeremiah 5:6

    Therefore a lion from the forest will strike them down, a wolf from the desert will ravage them. A leopard will lie in wait near their cities, and everyone who ventures out will be torn to pieces. For their rebellious acts are many, and their unfaithful deeds are numerous.

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  • Jeremiah 52:7

    Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled the city by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah,

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  • 2 Kings 24:1–20

    During Jehoiakim’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon invaded. So Jehoiakim became his vassal for three years, until he turned and rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar.

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  • 2 Kings 18:1–19

    In the third year of the reign of Hoshea son of Elah over Israel, Hezekiah son of Ahaz became king of Judah.

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  • Jeremiah 52:12–14

    On the tenth day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.

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  • Jeremiah 51:34

    “Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:1–23

    Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king in Jerusalem in place of his father.

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